Yet black women were two to three times more likely to
die than white women with the same complication.
We know the stat: Black women are 3 - 4 times more likely to
die than white woman from childbirth related reasons.
Not exact matches
Let me use an example from public health:
white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black
woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer
white woman die from breast cancer
than black
woman.
New York City statistics include the troubling finding that black
women here are nearly eight times more likely to
die from pregnancy - related complications
than white mothers.
It is not «biased» to tell
women that as a low risk, middle class
white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to
die than if they give birth in the hospital.
James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black
women are 42 percent more likely to
die from breast cancer
than their
white counterparts and Hispanic
women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer
than either
white or black
women.
The researchers found that black
women in the United States are
dying from cervical cancer at a rate 77 percent higher
than previously thought, while
white women are
dying at a rate 47 percent higher.
African - American
women are more likely to
die of breast cancer
than white women, and breast cancer is more common in African - American
women under the age of 45.
After her husband
died, Stern consigned a portion of their collection, including many works by black artists, among them David Hammons (above), Wangechi Mutu (below), Simone Leigh, Yinka Shonibare, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, whose painting of five black
women in
white dresses sold for more
than $ 1.5 million, setting an artist record.
I mean, I think the case would be strong - in the past couple decades the NIH had to step up its work on heart disease in
women even though
white women were
dying of heart disease later in life
than men were.
Black
women are 71 percent more likely to
die from cervical cancer and 243 percent more likely to
die from pregnancy - or childbirth - related causes
than White women.